People should be able to build a dictionary of universal and personal shapes, forms, and choices that will grow and emerge as they mature. It is a deep process that is necessary to build a strong foundation for emotional, cognitive, and technical maturity.
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Our sense of touch deeply affects us. It is the first sense to develop and the last one to go away. It always remains an open expressive and relational possibility. Along with sight, it is the one sense that can grasp the shape of an object and its spatial orientation.
But unlike sight, touch works through successive stages in development.
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